Here Are the AFI AWARDS 2016 Official Selections

December 7, 2016

Each year, AFI recognizes the year’s most culturally and artistically significant films and television programs with AFI AWARDS. This almanac documents works of excellence and is the only national honor for the entertainment community’s creative teams as a whole, celebrating the collaborative nature of the art form.

Here are this year’s Official Selections:

MOVIES OF THE YEAR

ARRIVAL
FENCES
HACKSAW RIDGE
HELL OR HIGH WATER
LA LA LAND
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
MOONLIGHT
SILENCE
SULLY
ZOOTOPIA

TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR

THE AMERICANS
ATLANTA
BETTER CALL SAUL
THE CROWN
GAME OF THRONES
THE NIGHT OF
THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON: AMERICAN CRIME STORY
STRANGER THINGS
THIS IS US
VEEP

AFI SPECIAL AWARD

O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA

Honorees will gather on January 6, 2017, at the AFI AWARDS private luncheon, a noncompetitive and intimate event where AFI will reveal the jury rationales for each selection. The jury — comprised of AFI Trustees, scholars, artists and critics — is listed in full here.

The AFI AWARDS luncheon will be sponsored by Audi, a supporter of AFI and its programs for the past 13 years. The event’s Patron of the Arts is Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, Vice President and Director of the Annenberg Foundation and founder of GRoW @ Annenberg. The event is also sponsored by American Airlines, the official airline of AFI. At the luncheon, AFI will present jury rationales providing artistic and cultural context for the selection of each honoree. Press coverage of the AFI AWARDS luncheon is strictly by invitation only. Photos will be available online through AFI immediately following the event.

Zootopia is the better film! This isn’t up for debate! If you took time to read what critics have said about Moana you’d see that time and time again Zootopia is used as the bar of quality! Moana doesn’t bring anything new to the table, Zootopia does! It deserves this award and rightfully so!

I totally agree with your movie choices and was glad you included Sully because it was a pleasant surprise for me that it was so well done. This is Us is by far my favorite t.v. series and I thought The Night Of was excellent.

Thank you AFI for including Zootopia! No other film this year has been more relevant of more deserving! When Zootopia was released no one and I mean NO ONE expected such greatness from such a modest film released outside of holiday or summer flair. Yet it became a rare critical and box-office success and is loved by millions around the world! A good film with a good message was able to take its place among so many “blockbusters” and I feel that’s a very positive thing!

A couple of “. . .eh?” choices on the list, but then again, I don’t know what I would replace them with.
Moonlight and Zootopia are definitely the top two. You can tell those were fantastic, both critically and financially, because those are the ones the Alt-Right is/was loosing their collective s*** over. :p

Zootopia’s entry made me so excited. It’s clearly the fan’s favourite and so cool AFI decides to honor that. Westworld should deserve a spot tho, but cool to see Stranger Things. Great year for entertainment.

Congrats to Zootopia for being in the name of the top 10 of the American Film Institute (AFI). Zootopia is best movie in 2016 since I watch it and so this movie should be award so bad. Btw, good luck. ☺☺☺